This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Around one-quarter of California’s GHG emissions can be traced to residential and commercial buildings. In recent years, as cities have sought to meet climate action goals, some have enacted policies intended to…
One in every nine children in Maricopa County is asthmatic. The Arizona county, home to Phoenix, has some of the most polluted air in the country. At least 13 percent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As Congress debates billions of dollars in new infrastructure investments, advocates are touting the social and economic benefits of building new high-voltage transmission lines, clean energy plants and electric vehicle…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We know that poor air quality negatively affects our productivity and health. Those particularly vulnerable are children, elderly and individuals with underlying heath conditions, such as asthma or heart disease.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Efforts to push low-carbon lifestyles and green energy to curb climate change will fail unless many people see benefits — and the poorest and most vulnerable should get the biggest gains,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tona Barkley lives in the small town of Owenton in northeastern Kentucky between the cities of Louisville and Cincinnati. Just like her neighbors, she’s one of the more than 42…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Can slicing a 100-mile-long trench into the bed of the Columbia River — the iconic giant whose flow binds British Columbia, Washington and Oregon — be good for the environment?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When it comes to lowering carbon footprints, much of the discussion is around giving things up, like driving less or using less energy. But it’s a privilege to have the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy. But it has a problem. Its continental shelf drops off quickly,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From offshore wind farms in Britain to floating solar power plants in Vietnam, about 13,000 renewable energy projects in nearly 50 countries are waiting for finance — and could create up…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The hydraulic fracturing boom is waning in Appalachia. Though advocates have touted fracking as a manufacturing-jobs booster in recent years, it created “startlingly few” jobs in the region, and most…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Biogas has been used as an energy source for centuries, to warm bathwater or light streetlamps, for example. But it is our slate of 21st-century socioenvironmental challenges that have sparked…